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Russ Garrett
Personal blog · russ.garrett.co.uk · on HN as russssprogrammingsystems
Russ Garrett's personal blog at russ.garrett.co.uk covers programming and systems. Since 2009, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “UK Online Safety Act Notes for Small Sites”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Russ Garrett's posts on the UK Online Safety Act, including a guide to the Act's requirements, and a 2011 post on Gene Kranz's Apollo 1 'Tough and Competent' speech.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- UK Online Safety Act Notes for Small Sites5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-12-17
What Hacker News says?
A risk assessment is not the same as a record of each decision. https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guid... has a more comprehensive translation into more normal English. You will need to assess the risk of people seeing something from one of those categories (for speciality forms, mostly low), think about algorithms showing it to users (again for forums thats pretty simple) Then have a mechanism…
Comment linking /2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
on “Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)”Submitted PostgreSQL Monitoring Cheatsheet as a story · 98 points
HN discussionA CIO is more onerous than a CLG because a CIO is a charity, and comes with the charitable reporting requirements (and also the tax benefits). A pure CLG doesn't have the charitable tax benefits but it's still a non-profit governance structure, and you only have to file with Companies House and HMRC. The CLG is the lowest-hassle non-profit structure. (Confusingly, CLGs can also be charities - because charitable stat…
Comment linking /2009/10/25/starting-a-non-profit-in-the-uk/
on “Leaving Freenode for a new network”Submitted Datacenter Security: A Cautionary Tale from Last.fm as a story · 59 points
HN discussionReminds me of Gene Kranz's "Honest and Competent" speech he gave to his Mission Control team after the Apollo 1 fire in 1967. One thing he said in that speech has always stuck with me: "Nothing we did had any shelf life... he were too gung ho about the schedule... nobody said, 'dammit, stop!'" Link to speech: https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2011/01/30/tough-and-competent/
Comment linking /2011/01/30/tough-and-competent/
on “JavaScript frameworks and topics to learn in 2017”Submitted Operations Monitoring, Retro Style as a story · 25 points
HN discussionThe pg_collkey extension gives you access to ICU's unicode collation functionality from within Postgres: http://www.flexiguided.de/publications.pgcollkey.en.html Also see my blog post about it here: http://russ.garrett.co.uk/2009/01/18/unicode-postgres/
Comment linking /2009/01/18/unicode-postgres/
on “PostgreSQL 9.0b1 with built-in replication support”Submitted UK Online Safety Act Notes for Small Sites as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI suggest you start here: https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/ There's a lot more out there ... seriously, a lot more, but that's a good single point to start from. There's also this: https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guid...
Comment linking /2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
on “Urban Dead is shutting down”Submitted Semi-Realtime Satellite Desktop Backgrounds as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Online Safety Act Notes for Small Sites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted UK Online Safety Act Notes for Small Sites (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Monitoring Cheatsheet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Monitoring Cheatsheet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Red Sands Sea Fort visit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Hardware and Top-down Design as a story · 2 points
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